A director of a major global telecommunications company will offer AMTA Members an insight next week into the challenges the telecommunications industry faces with a pre-digital legislative framework in a converged world.

MobileMuster is giving schools the opportunity to help our environment and at the same time receive some fantastic rewards for schools and students by simply rounding up and handing in old and unused mobile phones, batteries, chargers and accessories in 2010.

Consumers are adopting a cautious attitude in the wake of recent series of interest rate rises, says a leading economic analyst in commenting on AMTA’s latest mobile shipment figures for February 2010.

Communications Day reports today that Telstra is poised to begin LTE trials in May, but is carefully positioning the technology as a gradual evolution from high-end HSPA – leaving plenty of scope in the meantime to wring ever higher speeds from its Next G network.

A Current Affair’s program this week on a mobile phone spying application has highlighted the importance of mobile phone owners taking measures to protect their phones and using handset security measures to guard against unauthorized access.

Officeworks has joined MobileMuster, adding an additional 130 drop off points for consumers nationally. Expanding on their sustainability program, which includes Catridges 4 Planet Ark, MobileMuster will be a welcome addition.

Aiming to cut down on the high number of premature births in Maryland, USA, and across the nation, a new program will offer words of advice for pregnant women and new mothers in a place that will be hard to miss: their cell phones, the Baltimore Sun writes.

The telecoms industry may have shown resilience during the recession but the focus on driving efficiencies and reducing costs looks set to continue, according to Ovum.